{"id":2082,"date":"2011-10-15T00:10:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2082"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:46:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:46:40","slug":"using-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/using-the-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The light cloud of the past few days has cleared, and this morning I was greeted by a beautiful sunlit autumn day. And by a heron. All these shots were taken within a few minutes of each other. The heron changed its location a couple of times but always along the north\/north west of the pond. The light was just edging up over the trees and hills from the east. I changed my position several times, partly to get closer but also to make use of the different effect of shooting with, across and into the sun. In all but one case only very minor adjustments have been made in processing the shots.<\/p>\n<p>For this first shot (and it was my first shot) I had the sun behind me. This is the &#39;full colour&#39; shot.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_1410117971.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The next shots were taken from the north-east edge of the pond., so the sun was behind me but I was shooting across from an angle. The colours are more muted as most of the light is behind the heron.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_1410117996.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_1410117998.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The heron then decided to take a short flight, passing in front of the wooded island in the centre of the pond. This is the only shot I&#39;ve adjusted more than marginally. It was badly underexposed because as the heron moved away from the bright reflection of the water to the darkness of the trees the auto-exposure adjusted by dropping the shutter speed. The whites of the heron were blown (no detail) and there was precious little contrast. Darkening the shot to highlight the bird rather than the background makes a big difference. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_1410117989.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The final sequence were deliberately taken more or less directly into the sun to produce a silhouette. The main difficulty was getting enough light reflection behind the heron to capture its head against a light rather than dark background.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_silhouette_1410118018.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_silhouette_1410118050.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_silhouette_1410118051.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_silhouette_1410118054.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The light was more or less the same for all the photos (the sun did rise a few degrees between first and last shot), but I think they show just how much the overall image can be affected simply by moving around and changing the angle of the light. <br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[989],"tags":[1179,40,42],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-heron","tag-photography","tag-sun","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}